[ Interesting term. Damen hasn't heard it before, but in fact the meaning is clear enough to him. It's fair to say he'd been resentful when he was taken.
Quietly, he sits next to Elliot. ]
That's what your people call slavery? This is not that.
[ He's rather intimately familiar with the difference. But still, it sits wrongly; the tattoos on their arms, the things that have been injected into them - the soldiers explained this to Damen, but they may as well have been speaking a foreign language. What he knows is that they've been injected, but that the things in them are meant to help rather than harm. He doesn't exactly believe that, but he knows that he's had worse, and he'll take this treatment over that. It's in his nature to look for the brighter side.
He glances at Elliot. ]
What is the internet? They have many things here that my world lacks. That might be one of them.
no subject
[ Interesting term. Damen hasn't heard it before, but in fact the meaning is clear enough to him. It's fair to say he'd been resentful when he was taken.
Quietly, he sits next to Elliot. ]
That's what your people call slavery? This is not that.
[ He's rather intimately familiar with the difference. But still, it sits wrongly; the tattoos on their arms, the things that have been injected into them - the soldiers explained this to Damen, but they may as well have been speaking a foreign language. What he knows is that they've been injected, but that the things in them are meant to help rather than harm. He doesn't exactly believe that, but he knows that he's had worse, and he'll take this treatment over that. It's in his nature to look for the brighter side.
He glances at Elliot. ]
What is the internet? They have many things here that my world lacks. That might be one of them.